A year ago today. . .

Exactly one year ago today, Shawn and I found out we were going to be blessed with a baby girl.  I remember the day so well.  I had anxiously been waiting since our appt. 4 weeks earlier when the sonogram technician told us she "thought" we were having a girl, but continued to tell us not to run out and buy anything because she would confirm it at our 19 week appt.  I had spent the last month trying to not get my hopes up.  I had been so sure all through out my pregnancy that I was going to have a boy.  In fact, I thought I was just destined to have all boys, as Shawn comes from a family of all boys.  Don't get me wrong, I would have been very excited to have a boy, but I think deep down a lot of women hope for a daughter.  I remember patiently waiting as the sonogram technician checked all the organs and body parts to make sure everything looked like it should.  This was by far the most important thing!  When it came down to it, as long as the baby was healthy, we would be excited no matter what the gender was.  But as soon as she asked if we wanted to know the sex of the baby, we both immediately said yes.  She started drawing something on the screen and a few seconds later, I realized it was a bow.  When she confirmed it was a girl, the biggest smile came across my face.  I turned to look at Shawn's face and I knew I saw a little bit of disappointment.  Just like every woman hopes for a girl, every man deep down wishes for a son.  So I expected this.  But I knew a few hours later, he would be sooo excited to know he had a baby girl on the way.  I wore a huge smile all day.  There's was nothing that could bring me down.  Knowing I had a healthy baby and baby girl, at that, was the greatest feeling ever.  Not even the speeding ticket Shawn got that day, that he told me about after we found out it was a girl by the way, could ruin my day.  I joked with him at the dr's office saying "when would you have told me about your speeding ticket if we had found out it was a boy" and he said "I wouldn't have told you."  :)  It was a great day because it was the first day we could start calling our baby by her name.  From then on, it was Emily this and Emily that.  I look at her 1 year later and I say with certainty that both Shawn and I wouldn't have changed the outcome of that day for the world.  We were blessed with a beautiful baby girl that has been the joy of our lives.   I couldn't imagine my life without her.  We love you Miss Emily!